queensland SP's at Shultz

[Cowfish13]

Had a few hours of \"nothing time\" this afternoon while Jack's at Schoolies (till next sat), so Dad drove me over to Shultz for a couple of hours of flicking lures. Was greeted with the top of the tide and my SX40's weren't getting down deep enough. So I changed to a soft plastic. I used a 1/16oz TT jighead with a 1/0 hook on a Gulp! 3\" Minnow in Rainbow.

Within a few casts I managed to catch my first ever Bream on a soft plastic and he went 24cm:woohoo: . Let him go and moved on. 2 casts later, I got a strike while the lure was sinking and missed it:unsure:

This continued for a while of getting strikes and missing them until I landed my 3rd ever Flattie on a soft plastic. He went 31.5cm. Let him go and continued further down stream. I put a cast over a good looking spot and had a big hit from a suspected 30cm Bream. But he got off:( .

Much later I was dowwn at a creek mouth with lots of structure and first cast I had something take the lure and scream off 8m of line. He stopped for 1/10 of a second and took off again, except this time the hook pulled:( . I think it would have been a 40cm Mangrove Jack or a big, big Bream or Cod. But I'm nearly certain it was a Jack considering where it came from and how it fought.

After that nothing much except for continous strikes from little fish. All up I only caught 2 fish, but I hooked and dropped 5 or 6 more. Next time I use soft plastics, I'm going to use a stinger hook to increase my hook up rate.

Still a great way to spend an afternoon and it was my first time using soft plastics at Shultz. I'll use them more often now:cheer: . Pics to follow

[Cowfish13]

Bream

[Cowfish13]

Mug shot

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Flattie

[Cowfish13]

Mug shot

[MichaelJ]

congrats on your first bream on sp's

[Cowfish13]

Oh yeah. There were alot of Snakes around. I saw two. One was little Red Belly and the other was I think a Green Tree Snake. Might be a Yellow-Faced Whip Snake (venomous), but I'm pretty sure it was a Green Tree Snake.

Here's the Green Tree.

[Fisher_90]

Looks very red belly looking to me lol, think u mixed up the pics.

[MichaelJ]

lol yeh i didnt know green tree snakes were black

[Cowfish13]

Nah. I didn't get a pic of the Red Belly. The Red belly was jet black. This one was olive green. The camera isn't that great.

[Dan23]

Nice work buddy. I would have thought all the rain would have shut Shultz down. I'm down at my parent's now and there's fresh all through my usual spot. So we're taking the kayak inland tomorrow morning for some small water wild bass fishing!

I'll have to try Shultz again soon. I like the look of Nudgee creek too. Have you tried there? I mean the other creek a little further North from shultz?

[Cowfish13]

I was thinking the same thing about Shultz and the rain. Usually it does shut down after rain. Maybe they havn't had much rain there or something:unsure:

I tryed Nudgee Ck a long time ago (5-6 years ago) when I had no idea of how to fish. We did alright there and I've seen reports on AFO of decent Flathead, Cod, Bream and Tailor caught there. I'm gonna have to get back there soon.

[Dan23]

we should get a few of us together and make a day of it. I think if you drive right up to the end of nudgee road and follow it around to the left you can get out and walk to the mouth of Nudgee creek. I haven't been there yet but I read a report of Tim's saying he got Taylor there on Poppers! My new favorite lure

[Tim a]

Nice one cowfish.

Dan that was ages ago, I've tried a few times since for nothing.

[Dan23]

Tim a wrote:

Nice one cowfish.

Dan that was ages ago, I've tried a few times since for nothing.

Bummer, I'm still keen to try again though

[kevinchen19870316]

well done cowfish

i thought the fish there should gone off the bite atm but obviously u r doing the right thing to get them on.

i noticed the short bites as well when i was there the first time. they attack the SP pretty hard but had trouble swallowing the lure. i tried stinger treble but it didn't help.

[Cowfish13]

Thanks guys. Those were the first fish that I have caught at Shultz since the school holidays (6-7 weeks ago). We have never done too well on the very top of the tides with hard bodies (either side of it is fine) so from now on, I'll be using soft plastics nearly every trip.

I just wish I could have landed that big one:(

[2 wheels]

hi cow fish sounds like you had a good run i'm yet to score on sp so you're 1 up on me lol the mystery fish that peeled the line off and rested sounds like a catty . I'l try for a hit @ shultz's next week end

[reef_raider]

nice work mate, god i hate snakes, especially red belly blacks, had a run in with one about 5 years ago and ever since then iv hated them

[Oztrav]

definately a cattie im surprised the 1/16 had any sink in the current

[STU]

congrats on the first bream on plastics mate plenty more to come

[Cowfish13]

Nah wasn't a Cattie. I've caught them before on lures and they didn't fight any thing like that.

When I say it rested, it only stopped for 0.1 seconds or less. Barely stopped at all. And the hit was on the run. Smashed the plastic. Also there was no slime on the leader:lol:

Oztrav: Because it's only the half moon the tides and current were pretty small. The full tide barely made it up the bank. Usually it covers alot of the land.

[flathead]

:woohoo: nice work cow fish good report

[Angus]

Nice one guys. I reckon every bream feels great when you catch it on plastic.

Angus

[Cowfish13]

Sure does. Especially when you see it swim out from a snag and smash the lure at your feet:D I wasn't really expecting anything for a while, then I saw a little black bullet swim out from the trees at full speed and smash it.

[pinkey]

sweet good to see plastics getting results at schults its usually hardbodys you hear of. Top stuff!

[Cowfish13]

Yeah that was the first time I've ever used them at Shultz. I'll use them when ever it's high tide from now.

[roobs]

the bream seem to be biting very nicely at the moment- me and a friend got six down at cameron rocks in about an hour. only two went legal but we were using small baits, drifted again.

[Oztrav]

true im just starting to get used to these mackay tides and its hard reorientating myself to the brisbane bar